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Why the same plate lands differently in two bodies.

Tuesday reads · Food

6 reads

Week 1

Can Your DNA Explain Why Two Healthy People Age Differently?

Yes, partly. Your genes influence how fast your cells age at a biological level, but they are not the only thing driving the difference. Two people born the same year, eating the same diet, with similar medical histories can look and function very differently at 60.

FoodTue

Why does dal-chawal spike my blood sugar but not my sister's?

How fast you turn carbohydrates into blood sugar is partly genetic, shaped by genes like AMY1 and TCF7L2 that vary a lot between people in the same family.

Week 2

FoodTue

Why do I feel bloated after milk when everyone says it's healthy?

Because most Indian adults stop making the enzyme that digests milk sugar after childhood - only around one in eight carries the variant for lifelong tolerance.

Week 3

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Do I actually need all these supplements I'm taking?

Probably not - most people absorb only some of what they take, and which ones depend on genes like MTHFR for B12 and VDR for vitamin D.

Week 4

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Why does the same diet make me gain weight but not my friend?

The FTO gene influences appetite and how your body responds to high-carbohydrate diets, so the same eating pattern can drive weight gain in one person and not another.

Week 6

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Why do I crave something sweet at exactly 4pm every day?

That mid-afternoon sugar craving that arrives like clockwork is rarely about weak willpower, and it is almost never random - for most people it is a predictable collision of biology, blood sugar, and habit, with a quiet genetic influence sitting underneath.